Learning How Little We Know About the Brain
By: James Gorman
By: Monty Howell
I read, “Learning How Little We Know About the Brain” by James Gorman. I thought this was an excellent written article with great facts and wonderful details about the human brain. This article taught me so much about many different areas of the brain. For example, I learned how much we already knew about the human brain, and how we could actually research them. This article focused on many areas. The first area it focused on is the research projects that are going on all around the world, trying to discover new information about the brain. It talked about specific projects and how the government spent up to $4.5 billion dollars on brain research each year. The article also talked about what we still want to know about the brain. Some of the questions posed were, “How is information encoded and transferred from cell to cell or from network to network of cells? Is information encoded differently in different parts of the brain?”. The article then moved into specific people that were researching this topic. For example, Edvard Moser was discussed. He was a nobel prize winner and brought the mathematical skills of a physicist into the field, and is able to plunge into the difficulties of dealing with actual brain experiments. Many different significant scientists and their work in various areas of the field had been discussed in the Article. The article and the research being discussed within in is so important to society. The brain is the controlling part of our body. The brain is the most important and most intelligent piece of our body. It controls everything that we do and how we interact. We know so little about our brain. Learning new things and gaining a better understanding of it is so important. Our brain is the very thing that controls us and obtaining a better understanding of it would be incredible. We are going through and age where we continue to discover information so often. Since so little has been discovered, our generation is going for major and incredible new discoveries about the brain and how it works, which will benefit society immensely.
I read, “Learning How Little We Know About the Brain” by James Gorman. I thought this was an excellent written article with great facts and wonderful details about the human brain. This article taught me so much about many different areas of the brain. For example, I learned how much we already knew about the human brain, and how we could actually research them. This article focused on many areas. The first area it focused on is the research projects that are going on all around the world, trying to discover new information about the brain. It talked about specific projects and how the government spent up to $4.5 billion dollars on brain research each year. The article also talked about what we still want to know about the brain. Some of the questions posed were, “How is information encoded and transferred from cell to cell or from network to network of cells? Is information encoded differently in different parts of the brain?”. The article then moved into specific people that were researching this topic. For example, Edvard Moser was discussed. He was a nobel prize winner and brought the mathematical skills of a physicist into the field, and is able to plunge into the difficulties of dealing with actual brain experiments. Many different significant scientists and their work in various areas of the field had been discussed in the Article. The article and the research being discussed within in is so important to society. The brain is the controlling part of our body. The brain is the most important and most intelligent piece of our body. It controls everything that we do and how we interact. We know so little about our brain. Learning new things and gaining a better understanding of it is so important. Our brain is the very thing that controls us and obtaining a better understanding of it would be incredible. We are going through and age where we continue to discover information so often. Since so little has been discovered, our generation is going for major and incredible new discoveries about the brain and how it works, which will benefit society immensely.
I thought this article was very well written, although there are areas for improvement. I thought the way the author presented the information throughout the article was very intelligent and well structured. I also liked the way the author used so many specifics. Many different facts and statistics were used as well as specific questions on specific areas of the brain. For example, how larger groups, thousands of neurons, work together to produce an action? Th article also focused on specific people which really provided great information. The vast use of specifics allowed the article to discuss such a variety of information on different areas of the brain. Although there were some areas where the article could improve. For example the article could be confusing sometimes. It would be so detailed and very in depth and quite confusing. This would make the article very hard to understand at times. If some areas of the article weren’t as confusing and in depth the article would have been a lot easier to process and understand. Overall, this article was extremely well written and contained so much valuable information.
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